Libghostty: An Embeddable Terminal Emulator Library Takes Shape
By
kingori
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The author announces the development of libghostty, an embeddable terminal emulator library extracted from Ghostty's proven core. The first component, libghostty-vt, is a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state, designed to be embeddable in any application without requiring libc. The article shares the vision and technical details of this open-source project that has been in development for over two years.
Key quotes
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Libghostty is finally starting to take shape, and I'm excited to share more details about my plans for it.
The first libghostty library will be libghostty-vt: a zero-dependency library that provides an API for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state, extracted directly from Ghostty's real-world proven core.
It doesn't even require libc!
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